It?s not the Colorado Teachers Strike, it?s DPS specifically. The current head of DPS has been in her role for 5-weeks and inherited a bad situation. About 15yrs ago Denver schools tried a new compensation policy that the rest of the country was supposed to be observing. What they did was try to incentivize based on results ...you know, because lazy, no good, unionized teachers are so materialistic.
What resulted was schools ?teaching to the Test? or, preparing kids only for these standardized tests and scores. As a result, comp being so heavily based on scores made income unstable and teachers started leaving for other schools/districts like Boulder Valley, Cherry Creek and some private?s.
Denver teachers are not fairly paid.